Unfortunately, as a game concept it's naturally short-lived. You'll complete the main training in a matter of hours (if not less), before moving on to the hitherto unavailable mini-games - which even then will only keep your attention for a short while. The multiplayer mode adds some long-term appeal, but while it lasts Rag Doll Kung Fu is an enjoyable and unbelievably funny game, featuring hilarious low-budget FMV starring developer Mark Healey and containing dialogue such as, "Get in that tree!" and "Idiots! Bring me his pubes!" If only for that alone, Rag Doll Kung Fu is well worth its humble asking price.

Rag Doll Kung Fu is one unbelievably funny game, highly original and fun to play even though overcomplicated and quite often frustrating. However this is one of those games that you really need to experience for yourself to make up your mind. My advice? Give the demo a try. You might fall in love, who knows?!

Back and forth I've gone, this is good, but this is bad, this works well, but this does not. What a to-do. It's deliberately an amateur product, but it's annoying to pay for that. It's inspired and wholly original, but it's over-complicated and frustrating. It's fun to play, but it becomes quickly irritating.

Rag Doll Kung Fu is unmistakably indie and undeniably professional, and given the amount of content, it's not hard to justify the paltry asking price of $15. Hopefully the online distribution method will continue to open doors to independent developers much in the same way that shareware revived the PC gaming market at the beginning of the 90s. Either way fans of quirk looking for the next Katamari Damacy would do well to look into RDKF. It's good, stupid fun, and a great time waster, which is all it ever hoped to be.

Here's the thing, though: The camera pans and zooms as it pleases, so keeping tabs on yourself is tough enough, let alone pretzel-bending into a stamina-boosting lotus stance while ducking baddies. Dialing down the speed setting (via the options menu) helps, but that also slows the audio effects and everything else along with the action. Eh, everything except for those crack-up cut-scenes.